Four Israeli navy corvettes are under construction in a shipyard owned by Lebanese and Abu Dhabi-based companies, although officials insist that no classified information about the warships is at risk.
According to Yedioth, Abu Dhabi MAR, a major ship builder in the Persian Gulf, operates the docks where the vessels are being assembled. The company is owned by Lebanese Iskandar Safa, who has a 30% stake via his Privinvest shipbuilding group based in Beruit; the remaining 70% is owned by Al Ain International Group, from Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi, which serves as the capital ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is “ready to cooperate” with Donald Trump's administration as he struck an unusually conciliatory tone in his annual state of the nation address.
The two Presidents have made more than one favourable remark for the other – President Putin called his new American counterpart a ‘clever man’ on December 4 and President-elect Trump often extended the olive branch to President Putin on the campaign trail.
Russia and the US continue to be engaged on opposite ends of various conflicts across the globe, with ...

A UK daily has demanded its Govt to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia which are being used against killing of Yemenis.
Riyadh is carrying out extensive air strikes to drive back Houthis as leader of the US- and UK-backed coalition supporting president Abed ...

All senior leaders of Islamic State (ISIS) reportedly must gather in Iraq in order to choose a potential successor for the organization's current leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Varying reports from Iraq and Syria suggest that Islamic State “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...

Secretary General of MWM Allama Raja Nasir Hussain has rebuffed the Indian and Afghanistan accusations of terrorism against Pakistan. He said that these accusations are baseless and hilarious.
Hitting out at Ashraf Ghani he said that before pointing fingers ...

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense called the 2003 invasion of Iraq a mistake. Mattis said, “we will probably look back on the invasion of Iraq as a mistake — as a strategic mistake.”
Mattis was one of the Iraq campaign’s most important ground commanders. He led the 1st Marine Division during the invasion and later oversaw the bloody retaking of Fallujah from insurgents in 2004.
Mattis was not among the six retired generals who went on the record in 2007 to criticize Donald Rumsfeld’s management of the war. Trump himself has criticized the Iraq invasion, ...

Afghan and American officials are increasingly worried that any deepening of ties between Russia and Taliban militants fighting to topple the government in Kabul could complicate an already precarious security situation.
A series of recent meetings they ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that the full veil is not suitable and should be banned wherever possible, it doesn’t belong here.
Merkel said she would support a nationwide prohibition on Islamic veils covering the face. The German interior minister ...

The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) called upon the relevant government authorities to pace up efforts to register as many as 11.67 million women before the general elections who are missing from the electoral rolls. At a consultation attended by ...